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Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity Team Building Activities Guide Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity Team Building Activities Guide Team Building Activities Listed here are a variety of Team Building activities that can be used for New Members and/or for the brotherhood. Each activity lists the purpose, the materials needed, the instructions, and questions you can ask to make the activity most effective. These team builders were taken from the following sources: ● “Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers” by Brian Cole Miller ● “More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers” by Brian Cole Miller ● “The Best of Brotherhood Building” by the North-American Interfraternity Conference Table of Contents Card Triangles Listen Up Me, Myself, & I Shared Values Washing Machines Human Billboards My Name Penny for Your Thoughts Rather Than Similarities & Differences Sweet Stories Catch Puzzled Tied United Hearts Change Timeline Guess and Switch Index Towers Puzzled Thumbs Wrong-Handed Picture One-Worded Stories Blame Game First Impressions Rainbow of Diversity ZYX Chopsticks Tablecloth Unshuffle House Puzzled Vision Failure Strategies Fist Secret Agenda Statue Maker The Swamp Garbage Positive Envelopes Rearrange the Classroom Origami $10 Dollar Auction Marooned “All IN” Minefield Family Tree Games Hole in One Magic Carpet Egg Drop Blocks of Success Human Knot The Web of Brotherhood Human Handshake Walking the Plank Invisible Chairs Maze Staying In Balance Card Triangles This is: A negotiation activity in where teams trade pieces of playing cards to find complete cards. The Purpose is: Participants learn to see others’ perspectives before they can influence and persuade. Materials: ● A deck of playing cards. ● Cut each card in half diagonally, then in half diagonally again, so each card is now in four triangle quarters. ● Mix pieces well, and place an equal number of pieces in the same number of envelopes as teams. How To: ● Divide the group into teams of three or four. ● Give each team an envelope containing playing card triangles ● The teams have 3 minutes to examine and sort their pieces and plan their strategy for bartering. ● Open the bartering. Everyone participates by bartering for the pieces their team needs. (They may barter individually or as a team.) ● Allow 8 minutes for bartering. ● Count the teams’ completed cards, and announce the winning team. Ask these Questions: ● How willing were others to trade with you? ● What negotiation tactics were most successful for you? ● How did your strategy change during play? Why? ● What other skills did you have to draw on to be successful? ● In what fraternity situations do we find ourselves negotiating for time, information, or resources? Tips for Success: ● You must have at least three teams for this activity to work well. If necessary, have the teams consist of two participants. ● They can barter individually or as teams. ● Give a 2 minute warning before play is to end. ● Observe whether two or more teams combine might. Comment during the debrief. Variations: ● For smaller groups, give each participant an envelope, and have them all barter individually. ● After 4 minutes of play, give teams 2 minutes to form a coalition. Any two teams that want to merge may before resuming play. Must be an even number of teams to do so. o If a merger occurs, ask “What influenced your team’s decision to merge?” Listen Up This is: A Speaking Activity in which participants listen as others share their views on a controversial topic. The Purpose is: Participants practice listening skills, even when they are anxious to agree emphatically or strongly challenged. Materials: ● An identical set of 10 to 15 index cards for each team. On each card in the set, you will have written a different controversial topic. How To: ● Have the participants pair up. ● Give each pair a set of prepared index cards. ● One partner draws a card and speaks for 3 minutes nonstop about her views on the topic. ● The other partner may not say anything, just listen. ● After 3 minutes, the other partner has 1 minute to recap what he heard. This is not time to rebut, debate or agree – just summarize. ● Reverse roles and repeat with a new topic. For Example: Controversial topics can include gay marriage, abortion, prayer in schools, euthanasia, election finance reform, capital punishment, income tax reform, needle exchange for drug users, unions, social security reform, non- English-speaking communities in the USA, the space program, AIDS, nuclear arms, and so forth. Ask these Questions: ● How did the speakers’ tone and body language contribute to the message? ● How did you feel listening without being able to speak you mind? ( Frustrated, anxious, made me listen better, etc.) ● How did you feel speaking without your listener saying anything? (Like I was being heard; Frustrated that I did not know where he was on the issue; etc.) ● How was the listener’s summary? ● When is it especially important for us to listen this attentively at work? ● What implication does this have for us back at the chapter? Tips for Success: ● Participants can reject up to two topics if they are uncomfortable discussing them. ● You can use one large set of index cards for the whole group. Duplicate cards are fine. Have enough cards for each participant (and a few extras). Distribute one card to each team. After one person has talked, distribute another card to the other participant. Do not give both cards at once. The second participant will be tempted to focus on what he may say when he should be listening to his partner! ● Give a 30-second warning before play is to end. Variations: ● Choose controversial topics so that they are all related to your organization. ● After the first participant speaks on a topic for 3 minutes, allow the second participant to speak on the same topic for 3 minutes. Discuss how two monologues are different from one discussion. ● Allow the listener to speak, but only to ask questions to understand better the other person’s position. Me, Myself, & I This is: A story-telling activity that forces participants to communicate about anything except themselves. The Purpose is: Participants see how often their communication is centered on themselves. Materials: ● No Materials are necessary for this activity. How To: ● Have the participants pair up. ● One partner begins by speaking for 3 minutes. ● He may speak about any topic or several topics. ● He may never use the word “I”. ● The listening partner may not speak at all, not even to ask questions or say “uh-huh.” ● After 3 minutes, reverse roles and repeat. Ask these Questions: ● Which role was easier for you, the speaker or the listener? Why? ● How did you feel listening without being able to ask questions, or contribute your own thoughts? (Left out, less connected, more focused on the speaker, etc.) ● How did you feel speaking without being able to check in with your listener? (Worried that he was not understanding or did not care, uncomfortable with the attention on me, enjoying the attention and focus, etc.) ● How difficult or easy was it to keep talking non-stop? Why? ● What creative ways did you find to talk about yourself without using “I”? ● How can we phrase our communications to focus better on the other person> ● What implications does this have for us back at the chapter? Tips for Success: ● Be prepared to demonstrate a portion of a 2-minute monologue without using “I” if the group demands it. Have the group try to catch you using the word “I”. ● Give a 30-second warning before the play ends. Variations: ● Add a get-to-know you element by having the group determine who is the first speaker and listener by who is the oldest, who lives the furthest from your location, who has the next birthday, the cutest pet, is most physically fit, and so forth. ● Extend the speaking time to 5 minutes to make it more difficult. ● Add competitiveness by allowing the listeners to gain two points for each time the speaker says “I” and one point when they pause more than 5 seconds. Be prepared with small prizes for the winner (s). During the Debrief, ask how the competitiveness impacted the activity. Shared Values This is: A sharing activity in which participants come to an agreement on the most important shared values to the group. The Purpose is: Participants come to agreement on the most important values they share. Materials: ● Paper and a Pen for each participant. ● One piece of flipchart paper for each team. ● Colored markers. How To: ● Have each participant take 2 minutes to write down what he or she feels are the three most important values to your organization ● Divide the group into teams of four to six participants. ● Have each participant share his three values within his team. ● From all the values shared, the team must agree on the top three most important values for the organization. ● Give each team a piece of flipchart paper and some colored markers. ● Each team creates a poster with words, symbols, and/or pictures that reflect those three values. ● After 10 minutes, have each team present their poster to the group. Ask these Questions: ● What values seem to be common across the teams? ● How did you handle disagreements in the teams? ● If someone new to your chapter saw this list of values, how do you think they would expect people to behave? ● Do we behave like that? ● What can cause us to lose sight of our values? (Pressing deadlines, others acting differently, changes at work, school, etc.) What can we do when that happens? ● How would living these values help us meet our goals? ● What implication does this have for us back at the chapter? Tips for Success: ● Encourage the teams to be creative in their representation of the values.
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